Incentive auctions, in which spectrum holders are encouraged to relinquish their frequencies in return for a share of the proceeds, remain unique to the United States. Read more...

COVID-19 has placed unprecedented demand on wireless networks with changes to traffic patterns, bandwidth consumption and user connectivity requirements that will endure beyond the pandemic. Against this background, the response of a number of spectrum regulators has been agile and innovative. COVID-19 has turned traditional spectrum assignment mechanisms on their… Read more...

The world’s biggest economy is working to maintain its lead on 5G by assigning vast amounts of the mmWave spectrum, and will try to release a portion of the 3.7 – 4.2 GHz band. Read more...

In October 2018, US carrier Verizon's 5G Home Internet became the world's first service offering explicitly branded 5G.  Verizon's spectrum focus is currently on 3.7-4.2 GHz (C-Band), 6 GHz and the upper 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 47 GHz bands. Read more...

Using LTE for public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) services has been much hyped in recent years, giving the impression that deployment is imminent. In fact a complete transition is likely to take a decade, even in first mover countries like the USA, UK, and South Korea. Read more...

SoftBank and its US segment, Sprint, seek to lead the pack in 5G rollout, with Sprint preparing to launch a US 5G mobile network using 2.5 GHz in the first half of 2019 while the FCC reviews a proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile. In Japan the 5G focus is… Read more...